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10 ways that our Accounting Services will Add Value to Your Small Business
Everyone wants an accountant’s help when tax season strikes. Few people, however, know the kind of value HM Accounting can add outside of...
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Pricing Correctly: A path to running a profitable business in 2022
We have seen considerable changes in customer behaviour as challenges such as the pandemic, the unrest in July, and rolling blackouts...
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Salary VS Drawings: How to pay yourself as a business owner
Making money was probably at the top of your goal list when you decided to start your business. However, most business owners struggle...
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How Much Should You Pay Yourself?
As a business owner, you don’t want to take too much and drain your business. However, you also don’t want to take less than what you...
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How to keep track of small business financial transactions
As a small business owner, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of financial data you must track and store. Every...
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How to Prepare Your Business for a Successful 2022
Your business has survived yet another year of pandemic uncertainty, changes, and curveballs. Do you know how you did it or did you ‘wing...
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Tax Deadlines - dates every Business Owner must know
Many small business owners have their hands full with tax paperwork. If you’re one of them, the admin probably ranks low on the list of...
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Is your small business ready for tax time?
Tax for small businesses in South Africa Tax isn't at the top of many entrepreneurs' to-do list. There are plenty of other things that...
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Helpful Overtime Calculation For Workers
Learning how to calculate overtime for salary employees is not too difficult. Firstly, it’s best to keep in mind that all hours worked in...
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Control your Cash before it controls You!
The biggest threat to growing businesses is cash management. It's not glamorous or exciting, but keeping control of your cash is...
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6 innovative strategies for business growth
Congratulations – you have took the leap and started your own business. After the challenges of the initial start-up phase, you are...
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Understanding Margins
In this article we will be looking at some basics around margins, helping you to understand your financials better. Let's start with a...
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Do You Review Your Pricing?
Whether you are a product or serviced based, when you first start your business, getting your pricing right is something that you spend...
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Budget VS Forecast: What's the Difference?
Budgets and forecasts are two of the most important financial tools at your disposal. As a small business owner, chances are you’ve come...
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Cash Flow VS Profit
It’s easy to confuse certain accounting terms. Cash flow and profit and are particularly easy to mix up. This article explains the...
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Business Basics: Accounting Systems
Many small businesses do the basic administration on a day to day basis - raise the invoices, pay the bills - but the rest of the...
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Business Basics: What costs can you claim?
Whether you’re set up as a sole proprietor or a company in South Africa, every cost you incur that directly relates to operating your...
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Business Basics: Paying others working for you (Employees or Freelancers)
You’ve started up a new business and hired your first employees, or your one-person band has grown to a stage where you need some extra...
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Business Basics : How do I pay myself from my Company?
The most compelling aspect of running your business is that you get to pay yourself as a business owner. Unlike a corporate business...
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Business Basics: How do I calculated my Taxable Income?
In this blog post we look at what is considered taxable income for a sole trader or partnership that would need to be included in your...
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